#bay-area

Flaunting wealth — flamboyant + boast.

Cut loose on the dance floor in the wildest, most off-kilter way possible.

Vallejo, CA — Mac Dre's home turf.

Oakland's nickname for itself.

Oversized shades worn loud — hyphy uniform.

San Francisco, by its original area code.

Bay Area tag for 'you know what I mean?'

Get out of a slow-rolling car and dance next to it while it keeps moving.

Bay Area subgenre and the wild, hyperactive energy it celebrates.

Mac Dre's signature hyphy dance move.

Bay Area 'yes,' stretched longer to show more hype.

Oakland slang for lame, wack, beneath you.

The contorted ecstasy-rolling grimace, worn on cue at hyphy parties.

Money. Bay Area through and through.

Money. Bay Area cousin of confetti.

Bay Area sound — slow tempos, deep 808s, sparse synths.

Short for ghost-riding the whip.

Oakland street dance — gliding, contorting, flexing on the block.

Oakland, California — the Bay's grittier twin to San Francisco.

E-40's nickname for the Bay — yay = cocaine.

Oakland youth bike with spokes wrapped in coloured duct tape and tinfoil.

The East Bay, by its area code (Oakland, Berkeley).

MDMA / ecstasy, Bay Area slang popularised by Mac Dre.

An older full-size American sedan dressed up for Bay Area hyphy car culture.

Weed — Bay Area slang from an E-40 record.

Bay Area 'for sure.'

Money — Bay Area, short for scrilla.

Impromptu East Oakland parking-lot meet — donuts, ghost-rides, street racing.